시드니 중심가에 동서로 놓인 피트스트릿과 교차하는 킹스 스트릿
그리고 마켓스트릿 사이에 있는 구역
이곳은 차가 없는 거리로 양쪽에는 유명한 쇼핑센터가 있다.
시드니에서 가장 오래된 스트랜드 아케이드에서부터 최근에
개장한 시드니 아케이드에 이르기까지 어느 곳이나 쇼핑객으로 붐빈다.
아름다운 빅토리아 양식건물인 스트랜드 아케이드는 마치 시드니의 역사를
말해주는 듯 하다.
Pitt Street Mall is the pedestrianised section of Pitt Street in the CBD of Sydney, Australia. It is one block long between Market Street and King Street and is one of Australia's busiest and most cosmopolitan shopping precincts.
Despite its small size, it hosts many flagship chain stores, including Myer, and more than 600 speciality stores within two city blocks. It is Sydney's main shopping street, and floorspace rents are correspondingly the highest in Australia, and the eighth highest in the world in terms of city streets.[1]
A number of shopping centres front onto the Mall, including Westfield Centrepoint, Imperial Arcade, Skygarden, Glasshouse, Mid City Centre, Westfield Sydney Central Plaza and Strand Arcade. In 2005 Westfield took over management of the majority of retail space in the mall through their acquisition of Sydney Central Plaza, Imperial Arcade, and management rights on Skygarden. They have submitted a number of development applications to significantly increase the amount of retail and residential space above the mall and restrict pedestrian traffic between Pitt St and Elizabeth St.
Pitt Street Mall is about to undergo a massive redevelopment operation with several arcades and shopping centres being redeveloped [2]. Shopping precincts effected are:
The whole Pitt Street Mall precinct will take 3 years to complete. The main construction stages are:
The whole redevelopment will be complete by 2012. With new stores opening from 2009.